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Mountaineer Enews July 31, 2017 Samuel Nogami, a graduate student in Mark Koepke’s plasma physics research group, will receive two years of Department of Energy funding starting August 15th to conduct Frontier Science Experiments in an inaugural FSE initiative launched in 2017 on the DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego, California. The facility and … Read more
AccessAI 26 July 2017 Tri Alpha Energy (TAE) is a company leading the way in researching Nuclear Fusion, the process of combining atoms at extreme temperatures which is largely believed to be the secret to creating an endlessly renewable source of clean energy, and they’re using artificial intelligence (AI) to ramp up their efforts. Support … Read more
Eurofusion July 12th 2017 Zoltán Köllő, Atlantis Cobalt, Paul Staniec and Tamsin Jackson (from left to right) during the D-T rehearsals in JET’s tritium plant control room. Picture: © Copyright protected by United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority “We have to try again and see what is really the best performance for ITER we can deliver”, … Read more
WNN 25 July 2017 The Kazakhstan Tokamak for Material testing, or KTM, will undergo “real-mode” testing from November, according to the draft of an updated research program approved last week by the Commission of CIS Member States on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced the approval yesterday. Kazakhstan’s KTM … Read more
New Atlas Rich Haridy | July 25, 2017 Google has been using its machine learning algorithms to help speed up progress in research that looks to produce electricity from nuclear fusion (Credit: Tri Alpha Energy / Erik Lucero) Hot on the heels of last month’s nuclear fusion breakthrough comes the first results from a multi-year … Read more
Quest2017 Luca Comisso. (Photo by Elle Starkman/ PPPL) Researchers at PPPL and Princeton University have proposed a groundbreaking solution to a mystery that has puzzled physicists for decades. At issue is how magnetic reconnection, a universal process that sets off solar flares, northern lights and cosmic gamma-ray bursts, occurs so much faster than theory says … Read more
Eurofusion July 12th 2017 One enormous factory just for magnets: inside the facility on the ITER site. Picture: F4E It is high time for Fusion in Europe to check in on the progress of ITER more regularly. Our series “The ITERsection” explains what makes this tokamak the most complex machine in the world. By reporting … Read more
Xenia Schmalz July 23, 2017 Novi Sad is a 250,000-people city, the second-largest in Serbia. It is located on the side of the Danube river. On the other side of the river, a hill with a castle, and an amazing view of the city during sunset. It has a university with a green campus, located … Read more
Daily Mail 13 July 2017 System can analyze plasma to help design safe reactors that harness the power of stars on Earth Machine learning can be used to spot processes that are causally linked This can help to predict what events cause complications in plasma behaviour Researchers say it could be used to avoid disruptions … Read more
American Security Project Jul 13, 2017 On July 10, 2017, Tri-Alpha Energy (TAE), a nuclear fusion energy start-up based in Foothill Ranch, California, achieved the first plasma in its fifth and newest reactor, Norman. TAE is the world’s largest private fusion company and has worked towards commercial nuclear power for the past 20 years. The … Read more